
SPALDING, Neb. — There are flags at half-staff in Spalding to honor a 21-year-old soldier who died of wounds he suffered last month in Afghanistan.
The Defense Department said Christopher Pfeifer died Sept. 25 at a hospital in San Antonio. The young private first class was injured Aug. 17 when insurgents attacked his unit near Kamu.
He was assigned to the 1st Squadron, 91st Cavalry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, based in Schweinfurt, Germany.
Spalding, population 502 in the 2005 U.S. Census estimate, is in east-central Nebraska’s Greeley County.
Pfeifer’s great-aunt, Darlene Pfeifer, said the...